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Title: Story of Burnt Njal by George W. Dasent ISBN: 0-460-00558-8 Publisher: J M Dent & Sons Ltd Pub. Date: June, 1971 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Nordic Weltanschauung
Comment: One of the books that every traveler should read before venturing into Norway or Iceland. Saga era mentality well-portrayed, along with the traditional story of the 'conversion' of Iceland to Christianity (told in nearly every saga). Also provides the necessary prerequisite for reading and understanding the saga mentality of Haldor Laxness's 'Independent People'. Maybe it helps to love Norwegian culture in order to love the story. I have an academic friend from the of north Norway whose mother gave his brothers the names Skarphedin and ....

I read this translation before I learned to read Norwegian, and still value it highly. Dasent gives the reader the feeling of reading 'not-English' by the use of archaic English, much as does Hemingway in "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Scandinavian is anyway much closer to English in sentence structure (simple, short sentences, noun precedes verb except in questions) than to German.